A Las Vegas movie theater that closed a few years ago is slated to be turned into retail space for a mix of new tenants.

Bill Bayne, whose family owns the Village Square retail plaza on Sahara Avenue at Fort Apache Road, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he plans to gut the shuttered 18-screen Regal cineplex there and is treating each theater room as a separate retail suite.

He said he has been working to bring in such tenants as a barbecue restaurant, a gymnastics studio and a rock-climbing gym.

The former theater’s main entrance faces south toward Village Square’s sprawling main parking lot, and the screening rooms stretch behind adjacent shops. However, Bayne said he plans to open the north side of the cineplex building as part of the redevelopment.

He is waiting on permits for

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